This Week's Journal Cover

This week's featured journal cover comes from the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. It's a good one to start with since EID consistently has the best covers, and they always come with a thoughful essay by editor Polyxeni Potter (great name, that). Potter usually finds some way to links the picture with that issue's theme, which unsurprisingly is often some awful disaese-related thing. This month's issue features the 1911 painting "I and the Village" by Marc Chagall. This cubist (I think; it's been a while since my art history classes) painting features cows and people sharing the same space. To this, Potter writes:

"Though wide-eyed, they seem oblivious to what weighs all of us down to earth: infection and consequent illness and death, shared lavishly in the village. From the narrow perspective of 'us' or 'them,' zoonotic infections are not well understood. Their solution requires the total picture, from the human and the animal point of view. Because each 'I' sees a different village."

I visit the EID website every month mainly for this cover and Potter's accompanying essay. It's a nice touch to a journal that's otherwise filled with serious studies that chart the progress of terrible maladies. There's usually a couple essays and a poem in each issue, but the rest is written for the hardcore epidemiologist.

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